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From: jordan@ucbvax.ARPA (Jordan Hayes)
Newsgroups: net.mail.headers
Subject: Re: those colons again
Message-ID: <6405@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 22-Apr-85 05:23:27 EST
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.6405
Posted: Mon Apr 22 05:23:27 1985
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Reply-To: jordan@ucbvax.UUCP (Jordan Hayes)
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
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In article <5488@utzoo.UUCP> laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton) writes:

> Some people have names with have an umlaut in them -- like Bjo:rn.
> They stick colons into their names to indicate this. It freaks out
> certain mailers that we all know. I think that the mailers should be
> changed -- though this is another ``locking the barn door after the
> horse has escaped'' problem.
>
> Laura Creighton
> utzoo!laura

Aren't colons supposed to be on the way out as a routing character?

/jordan
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